--- title: Mrs Lopez brings Mia's family tamales (steamed corn parcels), wrappe… — Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shop… · tree and pragmatics description: Mrs Lopez brings Mia's family tamales (steamed corn parcels), wrapped in a tea towel, every Christmas Eve: «Eat them hot, mija» (Spanish for «my girl»). Who acts: Mrs. A sentence of the lesson «Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shopkeeper» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school wi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/483-neighbours-who-dont-speak-and-the-friendly-shopkeeper/21/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Neighbours who don't speak and the fri…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/483-neighbours-who-dont-speak-and-the-friendly-shopkeeper/) / 21 # Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shopkeeper, sentence 21 Mrs Lopez brings Mia's family tamales (steamed corn parcels), wrapped in a tea towel, every Christmas Eve: «Eat them hot, mija» (Spanish for «my girl»). **Who acts:** Mrs · **What happens:** bring, steam, wrap, eat · **To what, where:** family tamales, tea towel, tamales · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shopkeeper» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mrs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:483-neighbours-who-dont-speak-and-the-friendly-shopkeeper.lesson:21 # text = Mrs Lopez brings Mia's family tamales (steamed corn parcels), wrapped in a tea towel, every Christmas Eve: «Eat them hot, mija» (Spanish for «my girl»). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 483-neighbours-who-dont-speak-and-the-friendly-shopkeeper.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Mrs Mrs PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 Lopez Lopez PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 brings bring VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 Mia Mia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ _ 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 tamales tamale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 8 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 11 punct _ _ 9 steamed steam VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 amod _ _ 10 corn corn NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 parcels parcel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 appos _ _ 12 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 11 punct _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 wrapped wrap VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 tea tea NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 towel towel NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 22 det _ _ 21 Christmas Christmas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 Eve Eve PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 23 : : PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 24 « « PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 25 Eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 26 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 xcomp _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 mija mija X FW _ 25 obj _ _ 30 » » PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 31 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 32 punct _ _ 32 Spanish Spanish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 parataxis _ _ 33 for for ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 « « PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ _ 35 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 37 » » PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ _ 38 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 32 punct _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bring** | present | Mrs | Mia's family tamales | | | | every Christmas Eve *obl:unmarked* | tree rules | | 2 | **steam** | participle | | | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **wrap** | participle | | Mia's family tamales *not said here* | | a tea towel | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in towel=Destination | | 4 | **eat** *in a quote* | infinitive | | tamales *= tamale* | | | | hot *property* | tree rules | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. 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